Your best shot of 2007 (deadline: early Oct)

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'Gammarus wilkitzkii'

Location: Fram Strait (Between Svalbard and East Greenland)

Gear: Olympus C8080WZ in Ikelite housing. Dual Ikelite DS-125 strobes.

Description: The under-ice amphipod staring into the lens from its hide within a little depression in the ice.

'Themisto sp.'

Location: Fram Strait (Between Svalbard and East Greenland)

Gear: Olympus C8080WZ in Ikelite housing. Dual Ikelite DS-125 strobes.

Description: Pelagic amphipod in arctic waters. Shot free-swimming in the water column

Hi all,

Here's mine! Although I'm not sure they belong in with such awesome images!

The previous posts all represent an amazing collection of images.

Thanks to everyone for sharing them-I really enjoyed and was inspired by looking at them.

Napoleon Wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)

Crocodile eyes! (Cymbacephalus longiceps)

Lionfish (Pterois volitans)

These were all taken in the Red Sea in May

Camera was an Olympus sp-350 with dual YS110's and a weikamp bulkhead.

The next few are from my place of work-Capernwray Diving centre in the UK. Good viz, but "green" water!

Divers

Wreck of the "Podsnap"

Fibreglass horse known as Shergar

These pictures were taken with a Nikon D2Xs in a Subal ND2, with twin YS-110's and a Tokina 10-17mm

Enjoy

Adam

W1.

Harmony

Donsol Bay, Philippines

Nikon D200, 10.5mm

Snorkelling with the whale sharks is easy at Donsol Bay

W2.

Curiosity

Galapagos, Ecuador

Nikon D200, 10.5mm, Ikelite DS125

The sealion came to check me out at 20 metres

W3

Paparazzi

Galapagos, Ecuador

Nikon D200, 10.5mm

Whale sharks are plentiful at Darwin's Arch

Marcus,

Nice photos.

Just one comment, I thought the regulations for swimming with whale sharks at Donsol was minimum of 3m from the sharks to avoid disturbing their natural swim pattern.

Regards

Nigel

I'd like to swap my Morray Eel for this picture, if I'm allowed to...

Hungry Whaleshark

Nikon D100 with Sigma 10-20mm

La Paz, Mexico

Yes Wobby, that idiot got way too close

The next snap managed to get the dome port straight of my housing which equaled one dead camera.

Shearwater Bahamas 2007

THANK YOU for such wonderful images from 2007. As usual, I am amazed by the quality of images that can be in a single thread here on Wetpixel!

Submissions are now closed for the Sport Diver column, but continue posting away. I'm sure we'll see many more great images in the coming months before the end of the year.

Any News from this ?

No news, yet. We made the submission of text and images, and hope to see it soon.

Well, I just downloaded the issue and the photos look great. They did eight shots over two pages. I have to admit I was a bit let down. I was told I was a finalist and I assumed that meant I was going to be in the issue...nope. Oh well. Thanks anyway for the opportunity. -Jim

I haven't even seen it yet! I assume it will be waiting for me when I get home, tomorrow...

Here are the two pages of winners (I downloaded the new issue using Zinio). It's not a high res capture - just a screen print (I don't want to get into to trouble with copyright issues by trying to actually reproduce in high res!), but at least shows who won. Mine didn't make the cut, but I can't argue with the quality of the ones that did win -- congrats to the winners on some great images!

When will there be some more "official" results?

Lasse

Sorry for the delay -- I just received my issue in the mail a day or two ago.

Lasse - the official results are in the magazine! Bruce posted a scan of the 2-page column in message just before yours. I am compiling a list of contributors right now, and will make sure Sport Diver gets the list to send out complimentary issues.

List of folks whose images are in the issue:

Tim Rock

Stuart Halewood

Peter Mooney

Laurent Kbaier

Lasse Iverson

Marco Caraceni

Tom Kline

Chris Wildblood

Also, Sport Diver has posted a slideshow of selects from the entry pool on their website:

http://www.sportdiver.com/article.jsp?ID=21336199

Here is the PDF, straight from Sport Diver Magazine. Thank you, everyone, for participating!

(PDF download courtesy of Sport Diver Magazine January/February 2008)

SPD0208__Images.pdf

Hey Eric,

The images are amazing, but the slide show on the Sport Diver website does not do them justice. Many of the photos look blurry or out of focus, which I'm sure they are not. It would also be nice to have some kind of thumbnail guide to help navigate.

I don't like to be critical, but so many of the images are so nice and they are just not being presented very well in that slide show. You may want to pass this along to the web guys in charge of the Sport Diver site.

Bonnie

I found out that the images on the SD site were from DivePhotoGuide submissions only. But yes, the slide show software could have been better designed...